AESTHETICS 2011

Aesthetics students,

I welcome you to this blogsite for a new year of active participation in the matters of aesthetic experience. Please scroll down and open past years of dialog and postings to see just how rich a subject aesthetics is---notice the insightful comments your fellow students (many now graduated) have made.

I now ask you to make your mark, add your line and contribute to the ongoing discussion about the meta-esthetic world our five senses presents to us when we are consciously aware of our own states and modes of awareness.

Aesthetics means more than anything else being in touch with our marvelous faculties and refining our ability to access our sensory world, mindful that they are our bridge-- linking us to one another and to our external and internal worlds.

I also welcome Dr. Joe Ferguson who will also be posting and regularly participating in our weekly discussions.

Bill Havlicek PhD

500 Years of Male Self Portraits in Motion

Self Portraits from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

Van Gogh Self Portraits in Motion

Van Gogh from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

Six-Part Series on Beauty

This is excellent viewing. I recommend it highly:

FEMALE OR MALE AESTHETIC DISPOSITIONS ?

This post is a followup to the question that Dr. Joe brought up in class today and which I am asking each class member to respond to. The question is: are there observable differences between females and males in aesthetic taste, artistic conception, subject matter and art collecting? In responding to the question you can address all of the points or focus on one only. For example one may simply want to talk about art collections and how women such as Marion Koogler McNay obtained works of art that seem to be more domestically related than the more eclectic preferences of Norton Simon or J.P.Getty. Or one may want to tackle the big genetic question on innate genetic dispositions which will require more than a paragraph to accomplish =)

Offer examples from real life and use yourself as an example as a female or male.

I look forward to the dialogue and to Dr. Joes joining into the discussion.

Warm regards to all genetic participants,

Bill

A Capella Aesthetics

DEAR AESTHETIC EXPLORERS:

THE LINK BELOW OPENS TO A ALL-VOICE SYMPHONY IN WHICH THE SOUNDS OF RAIN AND THUNDER ARE SIMULATED; WHAT FOLLOWS WILL TAKE YOU LITERALLY INTO "THE MUSIC OF OUR LIVES"-- A TOPIC WE WILL SOON DISCUSS IN CLASS.

A HIGH FIVE TO THE FIRST VIEWER TO RESPOND TO THIS NEW POST.

REGARDS,

BILL

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